Prayer of the Mothers

The song “Prayer of the Mothers”, was born as a result of an alliance made between singer-songwriter Yael Deckelbaum, and a group of courageous women, leading the movement of “Women Wage Peace”.

The movement arose on summer 2014 during the escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, and the military operation “Tzuk Eitan”.
On October 4, 2016, Jewish and Arab women began with the joint “March of Hope” project.

Thousands of women marched from the north of Israel to Jerusalem in a call for peace. A call that reached it’s peak on October 19th, in a march of at least 4,000 women half of them Palestinian, and Half Israeli, in Qasr el Yahud (on the northern Dead Sea).

The very same evening 15,000 women protested in front of the prime minister’s house in Jerusalem.

The marches were joined by the Nobel Prize for Peace winner Leymah Gbowee, who lead to the end of the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003, by the joint force of women.

In the song, Yael combined a recording of Leymah, sampled from a youtube video in which she had sent her blessings to the movement. [from the description – Read More…]

This video was sent to me by a fellow Order of Interbeing member created by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. As she said in her email, “tears of gratefulness and connectedness” also came from me.

You see, my brother lives in Gilo – a neighborhood in Jerusalem not unlike the terrain of where the movie was filmed.

Don’t worry, there is an English rendition towards the end of the video. You can download the lyrics here.